Lincoln (movie, 2012)

For some of us, it's impossible to believe that the upheavals of the mid-1990s — the Rodney King riots, the O.J. Simpson trial — happened over 20 years ago. So Guillermo Reyes' "Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown," now in a sprightly revival with Pride Films and Plays, does have a time-capsule quality to it. Not all of the vignettes in this collection of monologues hit home as strongly as they probably once did, but Nelson Rodriguez's sensitive and febrile performance under the supple direction of Sandra Marquez nails the confusion of characters who are twice displaced — as immigrants and as gay men — from the American dream. Our main...

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